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TEXAS TECH CENTENNIAL

This story generously sponsored by Doug and Penny Wuensche.

with just 16 classmates in 1966, Norris enrolled at TTU.
Francis Wuensche Holden (Norris’ dad’s first cousin) was
the first to graduate in 1953. It was the beginning of a
legacy.
Norris had a few anecdotes from his college years that
might make current students cringe. “I worked at the
Texas Tech Creamery on the clean-up crew. One of our
responsibilities was to wash the huge milk storage vats.
One night, while I was inside the vat, the guys shut the
door and dropped a water hose down though the top. a total of 52 graduates. Fourteen spouses also
They knew I couldn’t swim. Someone turned on the turned in paperwork, out of a total of 27 Tech
water and started filling up the vat with me inside. I went spouse graduates. A total of 109 members of
to the front and stayed real quiet. They cracked the vat the Wuensche family have attended Texas Tech
door open, and I heard them laughing. They called out, University. Six members of the Wuensche Family
‘Wuensche!’ but I didn’t answer. They called out again, currently attend Texas Tech, and six more have
and I still didn’t answer. Suddenly, the vat door opened expressed interest in attending Texas Tech in the
all the way, and the water started to drain. ‘Wuensche!’ I future, so the legacy continues.
could tell they were panicking. They poked their heads
into the vat, desperately searching for me, and I spoke
up, ‘Who y’all looking for?’ The next thing I heard was,
‘Damn, Wuensche!’” “It is a great honor for our family to be recognized in the
Guinness Book of World Records. When I followed Francis
“On Sundays, I would go to the Lutheran Student Wuensche's lead and attended Texas Tech in 1966, I never would
have imagined my children, grandchildren, and, hopefully, one
Center for dinner since the dorm cafeteria didn’t serve day, my great-grandchildren would follow my footsteps through
food then. One Sunday night in the fall semester of the hallowed halls of Texas Tech. This accomplishment is made
1967, I introduced myself to a group of freshman so much sweeter because it has become a family legacy. We will
ladies, and one particular young woman looked at my continue ‘to strive for honor, evermore!’
name tag and pronounced my last name perfectly." " —Norris Wuensche
(Win-chee)." She nailed it. I knew right then
I wanted to date her. Two years later, Judy
Ahrens became my wife.” Judy and Norris both
graduated from Texas Tech in 1971.
The couple has four children, three daughters
and one son. Their daughters all graduated
from Texas Tech, but their son went to Wayland
Baptist University on a baseball scholarship.
These days, he, too, wears red and black as
head baseball coach for Lubbock Cooper High
School.

Amber Wuensche Parker started the research
and paperwork needed for the Guinness
Book nine years ago, and it culminated just
in time for Tech's 100-year anniversary. Four
generations of the Wuensche family
have graduated from Texas Tech, since
Francis Wuensche Holden, (Norris' dad's
first cousin), graduated in 1953. Forty-four
members turned in the paperwork, out of

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